[99] Bishop Burnet, the historian.
[100] See beyond, life of Jeffreys, p. 302.
[101] An account of Guilford’s unavailing attempt to prevent this appointment will be found in the life of Wright, chap. xix.—Ed.
[102] It is curious that Roger gravely states that “he was dropped from the tory list and turned trimmer.”—Life, i. 404.
[103] Life, ii. 179. It should be recollected that, at this time, the council met in the afternoon, between two and three—dinner having taken place soon after twelve, and a little elevation from wine was not more discreditable at that hour than in our time between eleven and twelve o’clock at night.
[104] James and Jeffreys setting themselves up as the special advocates of toleration, (with a view to the introduction of Popery,) is like our American slaveholders putting themselves forward as advocates of the rights of property and as special democrats, for the purpose of upholding slavery, based as slavery is on principles at war with the fundamental idea of property and democracy.—Ed.
[105] Life, ii. 150, 153, 334.
[106] Lord Coke lays down, that upon such an occasion there ought to be a warrant by advice of the Privy Council, as in 32 H. 8, to certain physicians and surgeons named, authorizing them to administer to the royal patient “potiones, syrupos, confectiones, laxitivas medicinas, clysteria, suppositoria, capitis purgea, capitis rasuram, fomentationes, embrocationes, emplastra,” &c.; still, that no medicine should be given to the king but by the advice of his council; that no physic should be administered except that which is set down in writing, and that it is not to be prepared by any apothecary, but by the surgeons named in the warrant.—4 Inst. 251. These were the precautions of times when no eminent person died suddenly without suspicion of poison. Even Charles II. was at first said to have been cut off to make way for a Popish successor, although, when the truth came out, it appeared that he had himself been reconciled to the Roman Catholic church.
[107] See the speech at full length. Life, ii. 192. There is nothing in it very good or very bad.
[108] Evelyn tells us that this was the first rhinoceros ever introduced into England, and that it sold for two thousand pounds.